Opening hours Periodicals Reading Room

Contact Periodicals Reading Room

Reference library and use of the reading room

In the Periodicals Reading Room – on the basement floor – the latest issues of approximately 18,000 scholarly and scientific periodicals and the latest issues of several German and international newspapers are freely accessible.

The entire collection housed in the reading room is traceable in the OPACplus/ BSB catalogue (location mark for the current issues: Hbzs).

The collections of the Periodicals Reading Room may be used exclusively in the reading room.

The reading room offers 101 work places.The Periodicals Reading Room is connected directly to the General Reading Room by a lift.

Shelving system of the reference library

The collection is shelved systematically. An overview of the most important subjects and system locations is also available as a leaflet. The detailed classification system can be consulted at the information counter in the Periodicals Reading Room.

Opening hours information counter

Monday – Friday

09:00 – 15:00

Information counter

Our staff at the information counter will endeavour to answer all your questions – particularly relating to periodicals and electronic media.